Speaking In Tongue Essay

From the day a person is born, that is when he or she starts to develop their own voice. A person’s voice is a powerful attribute, one can tell what kind of person he or she is talking to based on his or her voice. One’s voice that he or she obtains helps defeine who he or she is. The voice a person has in the beginning of their life, is influenced by how he or she was raised. In Zadie Smith’s essay “Speaking in Tongues” she disscusses how when people grow older they are exposed to people that have multiple voices and use those multiple voices to help to connect to other people. As well as when someone gets older their own voice has changed because of all the things they have experienced. Experiencing new things such as thoughts and ideas can change a person, because they are influenced by those things and adjust to them. …show more content…
Smith and de Botton connect with the idea that people are influenced by other people and change who they are based on their surroundings and how the people act around them, and that people adapt to fit in. People may or may not realize that they have mulitple voices, but everyone one has multiple voices. Why do people have multiple voices, when having mulitple voices makes it hard to tell who some one really is? The reason people develope several voices throughout their life, is because people create multiple voices to use in the different enviornemnt he or she is in, the changing of voices based on the enviornment is make it easier to please the people of that enviornment. With being able to change one’s voice based on the enviornment so that he or she can please the people around him or her makes a person have the ablilty to be flexible with their own